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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Daniel

  • Bible Trivia: The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Twelve questions on the manuscripts that pushed the Hebrew Bible’s textual evidence back a thousand years — what they contain, what they settled, and what they did not.

  • Bible Trivia: How a Text Is Dated

    Twelve questions on the methods behind every date you have read for a biblical book — manuscripts, internal limits, and the circular argument almost everybody makes.

  • Bible Trivia: Babylon and the Exile

    Twelve questions on the empire that took Jerusalem, the deportations, and the return — including the parts where the biblical numbers disagree with each other.

  • Belshazzar and the fall of Babylon

    For centuries Belshazzar was the standard example of a biblical invention: no such king appears in any Babylonian list. Then the tablets were read. He existed — and almost everything else Daniel 5 says about him does not hold.

  • Bible Trivia: Miracles in the Bible

    Twelve questions on the miracle accounts, at three levels — including the honest one about why a campaign leaves tablets and ruins while an event outside ordinary causation leaves neither.

  • Who wrote Daniel, and when

    Two dates four centuries apart, and almost everything anyone believes about biblical prophecy depends on which is right. Both cases at their strongest, and the two external facts that cut in opposite directions.

  • The Neo-Babylonian decades, 626–539 BCE

    Eighty-seven years, from the revolt that founded the Neo-Babylonian empire to the night it ended — with the biblical texts placed beside the events, so the gap between the two bands is visible.

  • Bible Trivia: The Book of Daniel

    Twelve questions on the book at the centre of nearly every argument about biblical prophecy — the narratives, the visions, and the language it is written in.

  • The Exile in Order

    Twenty-one readings covering the fall of Nineveh to the reading of the law in Jerusalem, arranged by when the events happened rather than by where the books are printed.

  • Bible Trivia for Kids

    Twelve gentle questions for classrooms and Sunday school, with a printable worksheet and a separate answer key for the teacher.